When It Rains It Pours

I am very distressed today!!! I just got a call from our agency and the home study documents must all be redone on a different letter-head. This means 13 documents will need to be printed once again on new letter-head, signed, notarized, and sent to Santa Fe for another round of apostilles (several hundred dollars more in expenses for the extra process).

Then they will need to be sent to Russia for translations before they can be submitted to the judge. So, unfortunately, this has slowed us down by several weeks in getting a court date. It just seems this adoption has been so difficult. We just flew through our infant adoptions without a hitch. Now that we want to adopt an older child, we have had every possible speed bump imaginable, to slow us down!!!

I admit, that I am feeling a little discouraged today, as it seems we will never get to the bottom of all this. Katie Aunna needs to be home with us so much and here we are still stuck in the dossier phase. I do have to brag about, Kids To Adopt and Frank Adoptions, as with the mistakes not being discovered until the dossier reached Russia, the Ministry did not have to give us Katie Aunna's referal and they did not have to allow us to visit with her. But, thanks to the good relations these agencies have with each other and the ministry officials, we were allowed to receive the referral for Katie Aunna and visit with her as well. Thank you God for letting us see our little girl.

Now we are asking for everyone's prayers to get the documents swiftly from our home study agency and that the documents will fly smoothly through appropriate hands before our other documents begin to expire!!!! Please pray for speed at the pace of lightening with our documents. Thank-you and many blessings!!!!